A mum is looking for a kind stranger who helped pay for her teenage daughter to come home.

Andrea Ballancore put up a public status on Facebook to look for the woman who paid for a ticket for her 16-year-old daughter on her “first ever big train journey solo”.

Her daughter had been stuck in Stockport and was asked to fork out an extra £85 for the next train home after missing her own. She was told she would not be allowed to board otherwise, but a mystery woman stepped in an offered to pay the difference.

The girl was travelling from Stockport back to Bristol

Andrea wrote: “This is my daughter. She just missed her train back to Bristol from Stockport.

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“Her first ever big train journey solo and the woman in the ticket office would not allow her to board the next train without paying an additional £85. She is 16.

“Please can you share this post far and wide, especially my northern contacts, as I would like to repay and thank the kind woman who took pity on my daughter and bought her a ticket! Long shot but hope this finds you, you wonderful lady you.”

The post has gone viral since it went up around 5.20pm on Sunday, August 13.

More than 9,300 people have liked the post and 31,500 people have shared it.